Monday, August 7, 2017

YouTube might finally bring its most useful feature to mobile

I’ve written before about YouTube’s best feature for binging on videos: playback speed control. It’s been around on the desktop for years and is handy for when you need to get through tutorials, walkthroughs and lectures in a short span of time. And now, it looks like it might soon arrive on your phone too. 9to5Google reports that it’s spotted a speed control option in the three dots menu on a Pixel with the latest version of the YouTube Android app. There aren’t many other reports of it yet (we couldn’t find it on our phones here either), so it’s…